On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:29:30AM +0206, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2023-09-14, John Ogness wrote:
> > Provide and use wrapper functions for spin_[un]lock*(port->lock)
> > invocations so that the console mechanics can be applied later on at a
> > single place and does not require to copy the same
On 2023-09-14, John Ogness wrote:
> Provide and use wrapper functions for spin_[un]lock*(port->lock)
> invocations so that the console mechanics can be applied later on at a
> single place and does not require to copy the same logic all over the
> drivers.
For the full 74-patch series:
On 2023-09-15, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> Would this also be useful to enable printing to console while under
> port's lock (by postponing the output until the lock is released)?
>
> E.g., 8250_dw.c has had this commented out since the dawn on time:
> /*
> * FIXME: this deadlocks if
On 2023-09-15, "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:
> Maybe dz.c shouldn't be touched by this series then?
Correct. This series is only wrapping the uart port lock, which dz.c is
not using.
> Though obviously both drivers will have to be eventually adapted for
> the ultimate console rework.
Correct.
On Fri, 15 Sep 2023, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> Patches 2-74 switch all uart port locking call sites to use the new
> >> wrappers. These patches were automatically generated using coccinelle.
> >
> > Hmm, no need to do this for drivers/tty/serial/zs.c?
>
> zs.c does not use port lock at all.
On Thu, Sep 14 2023 at 20:01, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2023, John Ogness wrote:
>
>> Patches 2-74 switch all uart port locking call sites to use the new
>> wrappers. These patches were automatically generated using coccinelle.
>
> Hmm, no need to do this for
On Thu, 14 Sep 2023, John Ogness wrote:
> When a serial port is used for kernel console output, then all
> modifications to the UART registers which are done from other contexts,
> e.g. getty, termios, are interference points for the kernel console.
>
> So far this has been ignored and the
On Thu, 14 Sep 2023, John Ogness wrote:
> Patches 2-74 switch all uart port locking call sites to use the new
> wrappers. These patches were automatically generated using coccinelle.
Hmm, no need to do this for drivers/tty/serial/zs.c?
Maciej
When a serial port is used for kernel console output, then all
modifications to the UART registers which are done from other contexts,
e.g. getty, termios, are interference points for the kernel console.
So far this has been ignored and the printk output is based on the
principle of hope. The
